More than 200 Romanian language teachers from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia came together in Chisinau for the international summer school for teachers entitled “Romanian language in the contest of intercultural teacher dialogue without frontiers”. In the event, the participants will consider strategies for developing literary speaking of the Romanian language, IPN reports.

The summer school is staged by the General Association of Teachers of Romania, the branch in Moldova, under the patronage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, in partnership with the General Division of Education, Youth and Sport of the Chisinau Municipal Council. Mariana Marin, head of the Association’s branch in Moldova, said the objective of the project is to cultivate the spirit of solidarity between the Romanian language teachers everywhere so as to make Romanian more prestigious in all the communities.

The organizers said the event aims to answer the question – how does the school contribute to the formation of the literary speaking of Romanian in society and what innovative teaching strategies are proposed for developing linguistic culture, tradition and history in the Romanian communication area? The summer school is designed to mobilize all the teachers for promoting the culture of communication in the education sphere and at all the levels of the social life and to increase the level of linguistic culture of teachers.

Writer Nicolae Dabija, in his speech to welcome the participants in the summer school, said the Romanian language is common for the Romanians everywhere and remained the one offered to the Romanians by God. The Romanian people suffered a lot to keep its language. For example, writers and linguists were shot in Transnistria in 1937, being convicted for adding ‘dirty’ Romanian words to the Moldovan language.

The writer noted that the students will speak as the teachers speak and that the teacher remains the key figure in the country’s settlements. “We must take steps for the Romanian langue to unite us. Several generations passed, but the language spoken in our country continues to be ‘infected’ and our mission is to make effort for it to be spoken correctly,” stated Nicolae Dabija.

The summer school is held at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and its lyceum on July 24-26. There will be staged a number of workshops, public lessons and discussions about the strategies for promoting the literary Romanian language. The summer school project is implemented with support from the Government of Romania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – the Department for Policies on Relations with Romanians Everywhere.